Dr. Anders has had long standing clinical and research interests in the areas of maturation of infant sleep-wake states and pediatric sleep disorders. As an infant psychiatrist, he currently participates in an infant-toddler-pre-school feeding disorders program. He is an NIH funded investigator, currently studying sleep-wake patterns and sleep disorders in children with autism, developmental delay without autism, and age-matched typically developing children. Dr. Anders is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Emeritus) at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and the immediate past President of AACAP. He was appointed Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SUNY/Buffalo in 1972 and then headed Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University (1974-1984) and Brown University (1985-1992). He joined the faculty of UC Davis as Chair, Department of Psychiatry (1992-1998) and then was appointed Executive Associate Dean of the School of Medicine (1998-2002).